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  • I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

    Rain   Eye   Night  
    "Acquainted with the Night" l. 1 (1928)
  • In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

    Paris   Actors   Want  
    "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.
  • The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

  • There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

  • The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real horror show. Every 3 feet someone is accosting you with a plea for a handout or the offer of drug or sex. The men and women wander the streets and alleys with a threatening, violont want. Takers looking to take, hustlers looking to hustle, all trying to satisfy a craving that is parpatually unsatisfiable. And tonight I'm one of them.

    Sex   Real   Dark  
    Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
  • If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

    Life   Travel   Men  
    A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).
  • A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

    Summer   Twilight   Sky  
  • Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds

    Winter   Night   Clouds  
  • Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the night He was something to observe Came in close, I heard a voice Standing stretching every nerve I had to listen, had no choice

    Time   Night   Light  
    Song: Solsbury Hill
  • I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

    Light   Cities   Ideas  
    Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr
  • What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

    Paris   World   Made  
    Charles Dickens, Jenny Hartley (2012). “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens”, p.136, Oxford University Press
  • Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night.

    Kids   Night   Small Town  
    "Q&A: Dustin Milligan talks Sharks, man-junk and 'Potter'". Interview with Sandie Angela Chen, www.mtv.com. September 1, 2011.
  • But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square

    Rap   Light   Cities  
    Song: Mo Money Mo Problems
  • The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

  • Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

    Light   Cities   Limits  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.80, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.

  • Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.

    Strong   Fire   Light  
  • When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

    Travel   Spring   Paris  
    Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”
  • I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.

    New York   Heart   Light  
    FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Dec 22, 2014
  • America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

    Country   Paris   America  
    "An American and France" (1936)
  • I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

    Rain   Eye   Night  
    "Acquainted with the Night" l. 1 (1928)
  • City lights shine bright on my complexion, Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection. Life is a green light, one star, no script, Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.

    Stars   Rap   Reflection  
  • A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.

  • World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.

    Horse   Night   Fire  
  • A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

    Light   Data   Cities  
    1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.
  • In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

    Country   Night   Light  
    "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 48), 1949.
  • As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

    Art   Home   Europe  
    "Why I Am so Clever".
  • A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

  • Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.

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